So I made it to Aethelmearc practice last night for rapier and dagger class, it was a blast! It’s been about ten years since I’ve fought in any kind of list, heavy or otherwise. Right now I’m working with Po Silvertop "the Rogue", also known as Scott, a friend sitting across from me at work here at Network Solutions. It’s funny it’s been such a long time since I even thought of the S.C.A. and here in the wilds of Hazleton Pennsylvania I’m sucked back into the society because of a cube mate from work. Scott spent many a day telling me about the live steel class that meets in Forty Fort, PA, and I finally broke down last night. Now most of my skills are martial arts based, 8 years of Judo, 2 years of karate, 9 years of Kendo, and 15 years fighting in the S.C.A., I did some fencing at events and in school, but mostly epée and foil. This class was rapier, epée, dagger, and parry object. It’s closer to real steel then I’ve ever really done. The meeting was pretty big, the class being held at a meeting hall in the basement. Over 25 people did take the field for fencing and heavy list fighting, my friends Kevin and Andrea did show for the class. Kevin is now doing heavy list fighting with great sword, Andrea is fencing epée. My old body did remember some moves, I even surprised Scott with my fencing skills, I gave some pointers to the heavy fighters and had an over all great time. I will be attending every Tuesday for sure…
(Gacked from www.heropress.net) Author Seth Grahame-Smith's next work is Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter and the book even has a cool, live-action trailer (see below).
Well of course I downloaded the DLC for my X-box 360, and yes, I spent the entire weekend with my buds kicking the crap out of the Crimson Lance, and yes I did use the glitch to plunder the Armory 5 times over. But the best news is MODDED GUNS ARE GONE!!!!! Yes, the new update gets ride of all those crazy cheater weapons that those snot nosed kids used to kick my butt with. Now they just need to plunder the Armory to get cool weapons… well before the next patch!
Conventions in general are fun and crazy things; I’ve been doing them since the 1980’s. Gaming conventions have every kind of gaming you would want to do, board games, war gaming, role playing, and even larping. In the beginning I use to do about five conventions a year, traveling all over the east coast getting my game on, mostly Warhammer 40k and Space Hulk, I did do a lot of G.U.R.P.S. generic universal role playing system, a fun RPG where you could do almost anything. I use to go and run games for the kids, buy stuff, eat crappy food, and then go home. But around the late nineties I dropped out of a lot of the things that I really loved, work, life, marriage and kids stopped all that. Now all of my kids are grown, except my son who is 14, and I’m getting back into the convention scene again. Dreamation and Dexcon are the only conventions I do now, basically one in the winter and one in the summer. This last weekend was Dreamation; I ran two types of games, my Zombie Apocalypse game which I borrowed from my friend Mike, and my Fallout game which I based on Necromunda. Here’s a breakdown of what I did during this con…
All of my games were booked up; I even had too many players for my Fallout 3 game. My first game is my escape from Hazleton PA, different scenery, and new objectives made for a really cool game. Here’s the con description: "Left 4 Dead: Escape from Hazleton" presented by James Rios & Jarrett Rios. It's been a long haul; the survivors have escaped from the city, the underground bunker, and are now crossing Hazleton PA to make it to the local airport. Battle the infected to make your escape, the infected seems to be changing even more, new monsters, new horrors, and new heroes! Come join the fun. Zombie Apocalypse on the table top! A sequel to the popular scenarios run at DEXCON 12! The next game was the fallout game: "Fallout: The Tabletop Game" presented by James Rios & Jarrett Rios. Come one, come all, to the end of the world! It's me, Threedog and do I have an adventure for you! Yours truly is under siege by Raiders and the Enclave, and I need some brave souls to get me to the citadel of the brother hood of steel. You and the other wastelanders are needed for a trip through the capital wasteland; bring your weapons, booze, and stimpacks. You're going to need them!
When was the last time you saw an animated zombie movie? Oh, never? That’s about to cha...nge. Check this out! A.D. - a CG animated Horror-Adventure written by Haylar Garcia. The movie teaser was directed by Ben Hibon (Codehunters) and produced by Bernie Goldmann (300), Tarik Heitmann and Renee Tab.
OK, Dreamation is just around the corner and I’m 90% ready with construction and rules and I can’t wait to get my game on. I’m also thinking about going back to the SCA for heavy list fighting, it’s been about 10 years since I picked up a sword or glaive to do battle in the field, for my gamer readers S.C.A. stands for the society of creative anachronism a medieval reenactment group. I was very good at Pole arm and sword and shield, but I dropped out many years ago and I’m sure I’ve very rusty. Going back into fighting is something I’ve been thinking about for some time now. I want to loose some weight and increase my life span a bit, and I’ve been walking and doing fitness videos for the last few months. These are pretty boring ways to get fit and I want to do something that will keep my interest. I’ve just email some old friends who have some of my old armor and weapons and they have agreed to give them back to me so I can start with minimal cost. Back in the day I was with a few groups included House Three Skulls and I.C.O.D., but I have lost contact with most of these friends (Except for you Turk!). I’m hoping to get stuck in, fight for money and glory and lose some weight while doing this. -Cheers
OK, I love borderlands, let me state this first, it’s a great shooter, RPG, and coop game. I love to play with people, I love to help other players who are just starting out, and it’s a great game to just play and relax with. My major rant with the game is modding of guns and equipment to such an extreme that it’s basically cheating. Here’s the scenario, you can duel other players if you engage in close combat. Most of the time it’s a fair battle with two players who at the same level can duke it out and the best man wins. What I am seeing is another story, I get challenge to a duel by a player how is 6 levels lower then me, now in game terms any monster or person three levels lower would be crushed by me. Its how the game works, but this “player” has a modded gun. So when the duel commences he shoots me with 1000 rockets doing 10,000 points of damage per hit. I’m stunned, and the player walks off chuckling… Now I don’t mind losing, and I love a fair game where my butt is kicked, but come on! It is getting so bad that I turned off the duel mode and ignore these cheating idiots with their super weapons. Most online games have an anti cheat program that can find these types of exploits and fine the player for cheating, I think borderlands needs to start such an update to keep these cheaters from ruining the Coop and RPG experience.
Brütal Legend (stylised with a metal umlaut) is an action-adventure game created by Double Fine Productions and published by Electronic Arts for the PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360. The game was released during October 2009 in North America and Europe. Though Brütal Legend was originally to be published by Vivendi Games prior to its merger with Activision, Activision had dropped the game from its portfolio after the merger. It was later picked up by Electronic Arts, though Activision and Double Fine brought counter-lawsuits against each other over publishing issues. The issues have since been settled out of court.
Tim Schafer, the game's creative director, was inspired to create the game by his own past musical experiences. The game features the character of Eddie Riggs, voiced by and modeled after Jack Black, a roadie who is transported to a fantasy world inspired by the artwork of heavy metal album covers. Eddie becomes the world's savior, leading the down-trodden humans against a range of supernatural overlords using a battle axe, his Flying V guitar that can tap into the magical powers of the world, and a customizable hot rod. The game, a hybrid of the action-adventure and real-time strategy genres, includes Stage Battles in both the single-player and multiplayer mode, where the player must command troops to defeat their foes while defending their own stage. In addition to Black, the game features voices of heavy metal musicians including Lemmy Kilmister, Rob Halford, Ozzy Osbourne and Lita Ford and other celebrities such as Tim Curry, as well as more than one hundred metal songs selected by Schafer for inclusion in the game.
Brütal Legend was generally well-received by game reviewers, praising Schafer's vision and writing of the heavy metal-inspired world, and the performances of the voice cast, particularly of Black and Osbourne. Many found the hybrid gameplay of action and real-time strategy games did not mix well, however, blaming console control limitations and missing features normally found in games of either genre.
It’s funny it’s been such a long time since I even thought of the S.C.A. and here in the wilds of Hazleton Pennsylvania I’m sucked back into the society because of a cube mate from work. Scott spent many a day telling me about the live steel class that meets in Forty Fort, PA, and I finally broke down last night. Now most of my skills are martial arts based, 8 years of Judo, 2 years of karate, 9 years of Kendo, and 15 years fighting in the S.C.A., I did some fencing at events and in school, but mostly epée and foil.
This class was rapier, epée, dagger, and parry object. It’s closer to real steel then I’ve ever really done. The meeting was pretty big, the class being held at a meeting hall in the basement.
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